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  • Ultra-hot gas around remnants of Sun-like stars

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/07-stars

    Stars (Left) Artist’s impression of the hot white dwarf GALEXJ014636.8+323615 (white) and its ultra-hot circumstellar magnetosphere (purple) trapped with the magnetic field (green). Credit: N. Reindl. (Right) Colour image of the white dwarf GALEXJ014636.

  • Leicester launches HeForShes GetFree Tour

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/leicester-launches-heforshe2019s-getfree-tour

    Following UN Women’s announcement, the University is to be the launchpad for the inaugural HeForShe #GetFree Tour to campus for a vital discussion on the importance of gender equality on Tuesday 29 September.

  • How science got women wrong explored by award-winning science journalist

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/how-science-got-women-wrong-explored-by-award-winning-science-journalist

    The long history of gender bias in science research and the work being done to correct it will be explored in a talk by award-winning science journalist Angela Saini (pictured).

  • Students Union helps students through exam period with some Leicesterlove

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/students2019-union-help-students-through-exam-period-with-some-leicesterlove

    Exam times are always stressful, so to help students through, the Students’ Union has once again been playing fairy godmother and granting wishes with a bit of #LeicesterLove.

  • Osteology - reading the bones

    https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/osteology

    Specialists analysed the skeleton to determine the age and sex of the individual, the spinal abnormalities are identified and the wounds characterised.

  • Frank, the Double Duchesse

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/11/08/frank-the-double-duchesse/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on November 8, 2016 Amongst the contents of the Fairclough Collection of engraved portraits, relating to political and social history in 17 th century Britain, we have recently discovered this delicately executed...

  • Leicester scientists in discovery of new type of plant

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester-scientists-in-discovery-of-new-type-of-plant

    Dr James Higgins from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology has been involved in the discovery of a new type of plant growing in Shetland. Scientists at the University of Stirling discovered the plant – with its evolution only having occurred in the last 200 years.

  • Mr Duncan Cloud (1930-2020)

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/duncan-cloud

    The University community was saddened to learn of the loss, on 24 June 2020, of one of its most senior members and a major figure in its history. John Duncan Cloud (MA Oxford, B.Litt.

  • ChancellorElect in visit to University and city report now online

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/chancellor-elect-in-visit-to-university-and-city

    Lord Willetts, Chancellor-Elect of the University visited the campus on 15 February to celebrate the official launch of his new book, A University Education.

  • Analysis of coral reveals long-term climate impact in Southeast Asia

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/march/17-coral-reefs

    Leicester-led research into coral reefs fringing the iconic island of Borneo in Southeast Asia has revealed the impact of cyclical climate patterns on the local marine ecosystem.

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